Quote

An entrepreneur is someone who dares to dream the dreams and is foolish enough to try to make those dreams come true.

Vinod Khosla

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Vinod Khosla
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 28
Businessman
Businessperson
National Capital Region of Delhi
Someone
Come
Dares
Enough
Entrepreneur
Trying
Foolish
Make
Dare
Dreams
True
Dream

More quotes by Vinod Khosla

Image
Spreadsheets are fiction. Believing in what you're doing and what you're building is what's important.
Vinod Khosla
Image
Success comes to those that dare to dream dreams and are foolish enough to try and make them come true.
Vinod Khosla
Image
As for companies invested in the space - I think its important to distinguish between a good investment and a material climate change technology - you can have the first without the second, even in the clean tech space.
Vinod Khosla
Image
Electric cars are coal-powered cars. Their carbon emissions can be worse than gasoline-powered cars.
Vinod Khosla
Image
I don’t mind failing, but if I succeed it better be worth succeeding for.
Vinod Khosla
Image
I generally disagree with most of the very high margin opportunities. Why? Because it's a business strategy tradeoff: the lower the margin you take, the faster you grow.
Vinod Khosla
Image
Innovative, bottom-up methods will solve problems that now seem intractable—from energy to poverty to disease. Science and technology, powered by the fuel of entrepreneurial energy, are the largest multipliers of resources we have to solve our many social problems.
Vinod Khosla
Image
The first rule of venture capitalism is hands-on experience. You have to get your hands dirty.
Vinod Khosla
Image
Not thinking it's possible is a failure of imagination.
Vinod Khosla
Image
Will biofuel usage require land? Absolutely, but we think the ability to use winter cover crops, degraded land, as well as using sources such as organic waste, sewage, and forest waste means that actual land usage will be limited. Just these sources can replace most of our imported oil by 2030 without touching new land.
Vinod Khosla
Image
My willingness to fail gives me the ability to succeed.
Vinod Khosla
Image
Imagine the world of mobile based on Nokia and Motorola if Apple had not been restarted by a missionary entrepreneur named Steve Jobs who cared more for his vision than being tactical and financial.
Vinod Khosla
Image
The world is hung up on food-based biofuels. Not only are they the wrong thing, they're the uneconomic thing.
Vinod Khosla
Image
You need a degree of foolishness to cause disruptive change in healthcare. Dare to dream.
Vinod Khosla
Image
There are parts of the country in America, in the Midwest, where wind is a big resource, and we should absolutely use it. But to try and apply it nationally doesn't make sense. There are technologies that will work that are appropriate to certain regions.
Vinod Khosla
Image
If I collected all the diamonds in the world, I'd have no 'income' but I'd have a lot of 'assets'. Would my company be worth nothing because I have no income? A lot of Net companies are collecting assets. They have to be measured with a new set of metrics.
Vinod Khosla
Image
It doesn't matter what your probability of failure is. If there's a 90% chance of failure, there's a 10% chance of changing the world.
Vinod Khosla
Image
By 2025, 80 percent of the functions doctors do will be done much better and much more cheaply by machines and machine learned algorithms.
Vinod Khosla
Image
Climate deniers are clearly the fringe group and need to see a proctologist to find their heads.
Vinod Khosla
Image
I don’t mind the low probability of success, but it better be impactful if we do succeed.
Vinod Khosla